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Facebook cloud gaming launched, but not for iOS users

10/28/202010/27/2020 Stephanie Beck

Facebook cloud gaming - Mobile Game on Android

According to the social media giant, Apple won’t let its users access due to “arbitrary” policies. At the start of the week, Facebook cloud gaming launched, but the social media giant said that it was available to desktop and Android users only. It revealed that it would not be bringing its product to iOS because of Apple’s “arbitrary” policies. That said, the web and Android users of the platform can try free-to-play games within the network. Facebook cloud gaming makes it possible for users to remain on the platform and…

Games can now use the new mobile news feed at Facebook as a viral channel

12/25/201111/23/2013 Stephanie Beck

There was a time that game companies at Facebook would draw a broader number of users through the news feeds of the gamers… which distributed the message to non-gamers, and though this channel was cut back, the social media company has now announced that it is using the mobile news feed to test game stories. Until now, game companies have been forced to use paid marketing techniques and actual word of mouth (as opposed to its digital equivalent) in order to grow their user numbers. However, this reinstatement of the…

Why Google+ strategies are making Apple and Facebook sweat

08/15/201108/15/2011 Jesse Collins

Google has dipped its toe into the videogame pool, in a move that is making both the current leaders in next generation game platforms, Apple and Facebook, nervous. Moreover, they should be sweating as Google moves forward in its efforts to move beyond the current sales cut of 30 percent which has become typical with Apple and Google. Punit Soni, the product manager for Google+ Games stated in an interview that Google will begin by sharing 95 percent of its virtual goods revenues which are sold with the developers, therefore…